It appears on the record, assigned a site number, categorised and cross-referenced, and yet when a surveyor went looking for it in 2012, it simply was not there. The grass was high in the fields that day, which may have hidden something low and subtle, but the local landowner, the person most likely to know the ground, was not aware of any such feature. The only site he could point to was a nearby bowl-barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument consisting of a rounded earthen mound set within a shallow ditch, which is a separate and confirmed site.

What this leaves is a curious kind of absence. The mound near Multyfarnham exists as a category, a placeholder for something that was once recorded or inferred but could not be found on the ground when David McGuinness carried out his survey. It is not unusual for early recorded sites to prove elusive: townland boundaries shift in memory, features erode or are ploughed out over centuries, and older antiquarian accounts sometimes conflated or misidentified what they saw. Whether this particular mound was ever physically distinct, or whether it was always a misreading of the landscape, is not something the 2012 visit could resolve.